S7012: Child Welfare

Legislative Summary

Requiring the Department of Children and Families to maintain copies of certain assessments and tools used to assess children for certain placement; removing authority for the department to grant exemptions from working with children or the developmentally disabled; subject to an appropriation, requiring the department to develop a child protective investigator and case manager recruitment program for a specified purpose; subject to an appropriation and beginning on a specified date, requiring the department to develop a 4-year pilot program for treatment foster care; specifying that incentives provided to state employees for participating in research or evaluation with the Florida Institute for Child Welfare do not violate certain laws or require certain reporting, etc.